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Annual Dharma Discourse Released on H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III Day This Year is also in English!!

Yesterday a dharma discourse by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III on”The Intrinsically Existing Truth of No Arising and No Ceasing in the Universe and in Human Lives Realized by the Buddha Was Not Created by the...

January 20, 2020

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February Retreat at Temple will focus on Prajna, Parami, and Ta

There are still a few beds open at the temple and room for many more commuters to our February 7-14 retreat on the Heart Sutra. We will have Mahayana, Vajrayana, and Theravada disciples and both lay and monastics...

January 12, 2020

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QUOTE–Prajna

…Regarding how to truly realize prajna, how to use your actual experiences to grasp prajna, you must understand the rules and methods of continual practice.” H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha Expounding the Absolute...

November 10, 2019

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October Retreat on the Heart Sutra

Serious students gathered to continue and start their study of the Buddha Master’s sutra based on the Heart Sutra. Others joined the group for the long week end. Although I was able to read much of the text, I had...

November 10, 2019

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Continuing the study of “Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra”

We have one more retreat this year that will start at 7:00 pm the Friday evening after Christmas and end at noon on the following Friday, January 3, at noon. This retreat will have several parts. We will continue and...

November 10, 2019

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Manjurshri Bodhisattva stands guard over the Chinese edition of ‘Expounding the Absolute Truth Through the Heart Sutra’ on the altar in the Buddha Hall at the Holy Vajrasana Temple.

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Description of October 11-20 Retreat-Classes on Expounding the Absolute Truth Through the Heart Sutra at Temple

The upcoming retreat to continue studying the preliminary translation of Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra will start on Friday evening at 7:00 pm with my reading an introduction to the Sutra by H.H...

October 6, 2019

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Photo of mummy of Chan (Zen) Sixth Patriarch Huineng (638-713) kept in Nanhua Temple in Shaoguan (northern Guangdong) China.

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The Four Bodhisattva Vows–Los Cuatro Vows del Bodhisattva

The second chant, done every morning and known as “The Four Bodhisattva Vows,” is from our refuge ceremony and one of the set of vows taken when you become a Buddhist: The Four Bodhisattva Vows...

September 22, 2019

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Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra

Another series of classes was held over the Labor Day weekend to listen to and study the amazing sutra by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III that uses the Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra as its foundation. We only made it through...

August 3, 2019

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